Wally Lepore writes: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Wally Lepore <wallylep...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:49 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I don't know how to do that on Windows. > > Don't you have a burning software that will show the MD5sum of the ISO? > > If so, simply compare the sum with sum from the http links without > software. > > Hi Ralf, > > Yes I do have software on windows called "winmd5sum" that does all > this automatically using a different process. The Cd Burner method you > mention is also another way. I will look into that. Also I discovered > there are many different ways to verify that a downloaded file is > error free. Using the program md5sum.exe is just one of many different > methods using the command line. I simply wanted to learn this > particular method, that's all.
Here is what I did - Download a program to check MD5SUM on Windows: http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/ - I extracted the zip file into c:\md5sum on my system. - I downloaded a netinstall image from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/ debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso - Also there was a file called MD5SUMS.txt, I download that also. Both the iso and MD5SUMS.txt file are in my download directory. (In this case c:\Users\testusr\Downloads) - I ran md5sum.exe on the ISO: c:\md5sum\md5sum.exe -u c:\Users\testusr\Downloads\debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso Note: I used the -u flag, this tells md5sum.exe to mimic the output of the UNIX md5sum command, which was used to create MD5SUMS.txt. OUTPUT: C:\Users\testusr\Downloads>c:\md5sum\md5sums.exe -u c:\Users\testusr\Downloads\debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso bdf926d604258ce17dfba0b5ef067f17 *debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso - I opened a notepad session, cutting and pasting the output of the md5sum command into a new session. - I then opened the MD5SUMS.txt file in a seperated notepad session and looked for the debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso line: bdf926d604258ce17dfba0b5ef067f17 debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso -I cut and pasted that line directly under the output of the md5sum command I had put into the notepad session previously, getting the following file: bdf926d604258ce17dfba0b5ef067f17 *debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso bdf926d604258ce17dfba0b5ef067f17 debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso Hence, I can verify that ISO and come to the conclusion that this is pretty darn complicated on Windows. To double check my work, I verified on my Debian system: mek@kuip:tmp-> md5sum -c MD5SUMS.txt 2>&1 | grep netinst debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso: OK Hope that helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120927133226.2d434...@bendel.debian.org